Siamak F. Shahandashti

PhD CS, MSc BSc EE
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York, UK

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2025-04-25: The end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system we designed, with Feng Hao, is employed in the inaugural UNITA Students Assembly elections, with over 100 thousand electors. See: ePrint of paper at ESORICS'16, Warwick Press Release
2025-03-26: I am joining the PETS 2026 program committee / PoPETS 2025 editorial board. The deadlines are in May, August, November, and February. See: PETS/PoPETS 2026 CfP
2025-03-14: Hina's work "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool" has been accepted to ICBC 2025. See: ePrint, Code, Dataset, ICBC Webpage
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[BAS25] Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool". ICBC 2025 (to appear).
ePrint | Code | Dataset

[CBS24] Ali Cherry, Konstantinos Barmpis and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "The Emperor is Now Clothed: A Secure Governance Framework for Web User Authentication through Password Managers". ICICS 2024, LNCS 15057: 233–252, Springer, 2024.
ePrint | DoI | Code | BibTeX

[BKPS24] Christopher Battarbee, Delaram Kahrobaei, Ludovic Perret, and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "A Subexponential Quantum Algorithm for the Semdirect Discrete Logarithm Problem". PQCrypto 2024, LNCS 14771: 202–226, 2024.
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